Quotes about Depravity

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The curse of the fall didn't affect only manual work, as we often seem to think. Excessive ambiguity that prevent us fro — Matt Perman, What's Best Next: How the Gospel Transforms the Way You Get Things Done
A life of hardship and personal suffering is unavoidable. A person must endure many humiliations of the mind and body, a — Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls
Till thou hast learned to suffer from a saint a well as from the wicked, and to be abused by the godly as well as the un — Richard Baxter, The Saints' Everlasting Rest
The unavoidable harshness of life surprised none of them, for they were Christians one and all, believing that they inha — Philip Zaleski, The Fellowship: The Literary Lives of the Inklings: J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Owen Barfield, Charles Williams
If I had a single wish, I would wish sixty seconds of total depravity upon myself. For one of the greatest gifts of all — Craig D. Lounsbrough
The central thesis of Surnaturel, then, is that, neither in patristic nor in medieval theology, and certainly not in Tho — Fergus Kerr, Twentieth-Century Catholic Theologians: From Neoscholasticism to Nuptial Mysticism
So then, let "Deserved" be written on the door of hell, but on the door of Heaven and life, "The free gift" (68). — Richard Baxter
Cheer up! You're a worse sinner than you ever dared imagine, and you're more loved than you ever dared hope. — Jack Miller
Thou hast gone on in all thy life hitherto, ever since thou wast born, in a continual opposition to God Himself, unto th — Jeremiah Burroughs, The Evil of Evils: The Exceeding Sinfulness of Sin
All our good is apparently from God, because we are first naked and holy without any good, and afterwards enriched with — Jonathan Edwards
Before we come to Christ, we must come to ourselves. — Rosaria Champagne Butterfield, The Secret Thoughts of an Unlikely Convert: An English Professor's Journey Into Christian Faith
Malignant phenomena do not come out of a golden age. — Barbara W. Tuchman, The Proud Tower: A Portrait of the World Before the War, 1890-1914
A poem, novel, or play acquires all of humanity's disorders, including the fear of mortality — Harold Bloom, The Western Canon: The Books and School of the Ages
Why, since folly or perversity is expected of individuals, should we expect anything else from government? — Barbara W. Tuchman, The March of Folly: From Troy to Vietnam
Violent crimes had increased from 120 per 100,000 in 1962 180 per 100,000 by 1964. — Rick Perlstein, Before the Storm: Barry Goldwater and the Unmaking of the American Consensus
Sin is the native language in every ZIP code. — Matt Chandler, Recovering Redemption: A Gospel Saturated Perspective on How to Change
Every artifact of human culture is a positive response to God's general revelation and simultaneously a rebellious asser — Timothy J. Keller, Every Good Endeavor: Connecting Your Work to God's Plan for the World
Even the respectable have a small anarchist hidden on the inside. — Barbara W. Tuchman, The Proud Tower: A Portrait of the World Before the War, 1890-1914
Though the outside of human life changes much, the inside changes little. — Edith Hamilton
If you spend your life on a moral hill-top, you see nothing but the mud below. If, like me, you live in the mud itself, — Stephen Fry, The Hippopotamus